Yeah, So What Else is New?
A big story in today’s Washington Post about a new study finding that the warming Arctic is altering the jet stream, creating Rossby waves that can drag warm air out…
The Mound of Sound
Trump’s Termites in Action
Victoria Hermann spotted the signs in January. The managing director of America’s Arctic Institute watched as data was wiped out by Team Trump. At first, the distress flare of lost…
I Think This Captures the Mood
I was struggling to find words to describe the misery of the Republican party in the wake of yesterday’s fiasco on health care reform. Then I twigged to something out…
A House Divided
When House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled his American Health Care Act bill yesterday he revealed a deeply fractured Republican party. His Congressional Repugs are divided in three camps – moderate…
Trump’s Crazy Train Has Already Left the Platform
The Giant Orange Sphincter has spoken. Trump’s long promised health care bill now litters the floor of the House of Representatives and Trump knows who to blame – the minority…
Got Half an Hour? Find Half an Hour.
Jeremy Scahill dissects his homeland’s descent into fascism and doesn’t spare Obama for his role in it either. Four or five years ago this was a tough argument to swallow.…
TrumpCare Gets the Hook
The writing was on the wall when Republican House leader Paul Ryan popped into the White House this morning. He was there to tell Trump that his healthcare bill was…
Henry Giroux Unpacks Trump’s "Culture of Cruelty"
Henry Giroux looks beyond the callous brutality of the Republican’s American Health Care Act to the larger culture of cruelty being inflicted on America’s most vulnerable by Trump and his…
Wrap Your Mind Around This Idea
We live in a world that’s running out of stuff including the stuff that keeps you alive – clean air and fresh water for starters. There is not enough to…
Our Last, Best Chance?
Canadians have all the proof they need in our own prime minister that the existing approach to slashing carbon emissions cannot work. Trudeau’s hypocrisy is embedded in his drive to…
Trump Plays Hardball on RyanCare
Ever petulant Donaldo Trump has grabbed recalcitrant Congressional Republicans by the pussy. Either pass the massive tax cut for the rich wrapped in the cadaver of a healthcare bill or…
This Shouldn’t Be Your Daily Laugh, But…
This Hour Has 22 Minutes nails it
Napolitano Loses FOX Gig
On FOX they call him “the judge” or at least they did. That’s before Andy Napolitano planted in his president’s addled mind the notion that Britain’s CGHQ spy agency did…
Making Sense of Yesterday
Having endured the “Death by a Thousand Cuts” ordeal now known by the name “Watergate” I realize how difficult it can be to make sense of the significance and meaning…
Shine a Light
If he hasn’t done anything else useful we can thank Donald Trump for finally shining a light on Russia’s dirty money. For years there have been stories about Cyprus and…
"Remarkable Changes… That Are Challenging the Limits of Our Understanding of the Climate"
The World Meteorological Organization admits that it’s struggling to comprehend the nature and pace of climate change now upon us. “Earth is a planet in upheaval due to human-caused changes…
What Happened Today in Washington
The House hearings went on for four hours. These two videos should suffice
Thomas Homer-Dixon Looks at Trump – From Bones to Entrails
In today’s Globe and Mail, author, historian and professor, Thomas Homer-Dixon tries his hand at vivisecting the Cheeto Benito, Donald Trump, to see what may lie in store for America…
"This Is What Empires Do When They’re Getting Ready to Collapse."
You know it’s happening. You see it, you feel it on a daily basis. It’s inescapable. It’s hard to grasp just what it really means or where the bottom is,…
Trump May Be the Final Step in the Evolution of the Predator State
Something twigged when I heard Trump budget spokesman, Mick Mulvaney, announce that this supposed president wouldn’t be wasting a dime funding climate change research. I quickly went to Trump’s decision…